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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Guide to pronunciation | |
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| Cognates | |
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| Nouns, Articles, and Prepositions, and the Principle of Agreement | |
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| Nouns, Gender, and the Principle of Agreement | |
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| Articles | |
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| Gendered Nouns | |
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| The Plural of Nouns | |
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| Prepositions | |
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| Contraction of Prepositions with Definite Articles | |
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| The Partitive and Negative Uses of DE | |
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| The Multiple Meanings of DES | |
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| Verbs, Subject Pronouns, and the Present Tense/Pr�sent De L'lndicatif | |
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| Infinitives and Verb Families | |
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| Subject Pronouns | |
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| The Present Tense/Present de l'Indicatif of -ER Verbs | |
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| Translation of the Present Tense/Pr�sent de I'lndicatif | |
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| The Negative Form of the Present Tense | |
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| Two Important Irregular Verbs: AVOIR, to Have, and �TRE, to Be | |
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| A Third Irregular Verb: ALLER, to Go | |
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| Formation of Simple Questions | |
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| Present Tense/Pr�sent de l'Indicatif of -RE and -IR Verbs | |
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| Another Important Irregular Verb: FAIRE, to Do, to Make | |
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| The Historic Present in French | |
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| Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Adjectives | |
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| Adverbs | |
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| Comparative and Superlative Forms of Adjectives and Adverbs | |
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| Translation Passage: Le Corbeau et le Renard | |
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| Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Reflexive Pronouns and the Formation of Reflexive Verbs | |
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| The Negative Form of Reflexive Verbs | |
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| Various Ways in Which to Translate Reflexive Verbs | |
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| The Imperfect/L'imparfait | |
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| Explanation of the Tense | |
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| Formation of the Imparfait | |
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| Translations of the Imparfait | |
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| AVOIR and �TRE in the Imparfait | |
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| The Negative Form of the Imparfait | |
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| Reflexive Verbs in the Imparfait | |
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| Translation Passage: La Charte de M�decins Sans Fronti�res | |
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| Past Partlciples/Les Participes Pass�s | |
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| Formation of Past Participles | |
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| Past Participles as Adjectives | |
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| Past Participles as Predicate Adjectives | |
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| Le Pass� Compos�/The Compound Past | |
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| Explanation of the Tense | |
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| Rules Governing the Formation and Translation of the Pass� Compos� | |
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| The Pass� Compos� in the Negative Form | |
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| AVOIR and �TRE in the Pass� Compos� | |
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| The Pass� Compos� Used Together with the Imparfait | |
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| The Pass� Compos� with Adverbs | |
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| Past Participles Used As Predicate Adjectives in the Present Tense Compared with Past Participles Used in the Poss� Compos� to Form the Past Tense | |
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| Translation Passage: Le Petit Chaperon rouge | |
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| Directjand Indirect Object Pronouns | |
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| Recognizing Objects in Transitive Sentences | |
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| Direct Object Pronouns: Meaning and Placement | |
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| LE, LA, and LES As Direct Object Pronouns | |
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| Direct Object Pronouns in the Pass� Compos�: Placement and Agreement | |
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| Indirect Object Pronouns: Meaning and Placement | |
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| The Partitive Pronoun EN | |
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| The Pronoun Y | |
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| The Order of Object Pronouns When There Are More Than One of Them | |
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| Translation Passage: La Belle au bois dormant | |
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| Additional Forms of the Negative | |
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| General Pattern | |
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| Irregularities in Various Forms of the Negative | |
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| Translation Passage: D�claration des droits de l�homme et du citoyen de 1789 | |
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| More Irregular Yet Common Verbs | |
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| Venir (to come) and Tenir (to hold) | |
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| -OIR Verbs | |
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| Impersonal Pronouns, Demonstrative Pronouns, Impersonal Verbs, and an Introduction to the Word Que | |
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| Demonstrative Pronoun CE | |
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| Demonstrative Pronouns CECI and CELA | |
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| Demonstrative Pronoun CELUI | |
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| The Impersonal Pronoun IL | |
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| Impersonal Verbs | |
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| The Various Uses of QUE | |
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| Translation Passage: Senghor, N�gritude et humanisme | |
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| The Future and Conditional Tenses/Le Futur Simple Et Le Conditionnel | |
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| The Future and Conditional Stem | |
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| The Future Tense/Le Futar Simple: Endings | |
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| The Near Future/Le Futur Proche | |
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| The Conditional Tense/Le Conditionnel | |
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| Translation Passage: Aim� C�saire, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal | |
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| Present Participles and Imperatives | |
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| Present Participles | |
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| Imperatives | |
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| Negative Imperatives | |
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| Imperatives with Disjunctive Pronouns and Object Pronouns; and Reflexive Imperatives | |
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| Translation Passage: Louis Riel Journaux de guerre et de prison | |
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| The Passive Voice | |
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| The Passive Voice Formed by the Past Participle as a Predicate Adjective | |
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| Use of Reflexive Verbs to Form the Passive Voice | |
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| The Translation of the Subject Pronoun ON and Its Use to Form the Passive Voice | |
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| Translation Passage: Marcel Mauss, Essai sur le don | |
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| Le Pass� Simple/The Simple Past, or the Past Historic | |
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| The Poss� Simple of -ER Verbs | |
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| The Pass� Simple of-RE and -IR Verbs | |
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| Translation Passage: Louis H�mon, Maria Chapdelaine | |
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| Relative and Interrogative Pronouns and Adjectives | |
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| Relative Pronouns QUI and QUE | |
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| Uses of the Adjective QUEL | |
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| The Relative and Prepositional Pronoun LEQUEL; the Prepositional Pronoun QUI | |
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| The Relative Pronoun DONT | |
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| The Interrogative Pronouns LEQUEL, QUI, and QUE | |
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| Questions Formed with Both Interrogative and Relative Pronouns QUI and QUE | |
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| Translation Exercise: Michel de Certeau, L'Invention da quotidien | |
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| More Compound Tenses | |
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| Le Plus-que-patfait/The Pluperfect | |
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| LeFutur Ant�rieur/The Future Perfect | |
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| Le Conditionnel Pass�/The Conditional Perfect | |
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| Le Pass� Ant�rieur | |
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| Translation Passage: Montesquieu, Essai sur le go�t | |
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| The Causative Faire | |
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| The Causative FAIRE, an Idiomatic Construction | |
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| Translation Passage: Durkheim, Les Formes �l�mentaires de la vie religieuse | |
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| Translation Passage: Claude L�vi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques | |
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| Le Subjonctif/The Subjunctive | |
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| When Is the Subjunctive Used in French? | |
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| The Four Tenses of the Subjunctive | |
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| Translation Passage: Moli�re, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | |
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| Translation Passage: Pascal, Pens�es | |
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| Modal Verbs and Other Common Idiomatic Verbal Constructions | |
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| Modal Verbs | |
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| Other Idiomatic Verbal Constructions | |
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| Translation Passage: de Tocqueville, De la D�mocratic en Am�rique | |
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| Translation Passage: Roland Barthes, Le Plaisir du texte | |
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| Changes of Tense with Idioms of Time | |
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| DEPUIS | |
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| Ilya… Que, �a Fait… Que, Voil�…Que | |
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| Translation Passage: Ren� Descartes, M�ditations m�taphysiques | |
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| Translation Passage: Marcel Proust, Du C�t� de chez Swann | |
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| Common Idiomatic Expressions | |
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| TOUT- Grammatical Functions and Meanings | |
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| Idioms with TOUT | |
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| Aussi; Aussibienque | |
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| Combinative Conjunctions ET…ET;OU… OU;SOIT… SOIT;NI…NI | |
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| Idioms with METTRE/MIS | |
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| The Several Meanings of M�ME | |
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| The Several Meanings of SI | |
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| The Several Meanings of ENCORE | |
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| Translation Passage: Pierre Bourdieu, Pour une Anthropologie r�flexive | |
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| Translation Passage: Simone Weil, Les Besoins de l��me | |
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| Configurations of the Infinitive | |
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| Verbs Followed by the Infinitive | |
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| The Infinitive After Prepositions | |
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| The Infinitive After the Preposition APR�S | |
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| The Infinitive After Adjectives | |
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| The Infinitive After Nouns | |
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| Translation Passage: Mbembe, “ Notes provisoires sur la postcolonie ” | |
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| Some Verb Families | |
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| -OIR Verbs | |
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| Families of Verbs Whose Members Are All Conjugated in the Same Way | |
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| Further Translation Passages | |
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| Victor Hugo, Les Mis�rables | |
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| Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary | |
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| Gabrielle Roy, Bonheur d'occasion | |
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| Jean-Paul Sartre, L'Existentialisme est un humanisme | |
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| Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxi�me Sexe | |
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| Albert Camus, Le Mythe de Sisyphe | |
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| Paul Ric�ur, Le Conflit des interpr�tations | |
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| �douard Glissant, Philosophie de la relation | |
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| Roger-Pol Droit, Michel Foucault: Entretiens | |
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| Julia Kristeva, Pouvoirs de I'horreur | |
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| Nicolas Bourriaud, Radicant: Pour une esth�tique de la globalisation | |
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| Michel Tremblay, Le Cahier bleu | |
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| Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco | |
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| Abdourahman A. Waberi, Passage des larmes | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Pronoun Chart | |
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| (Indicative) Verb Tense Chart I | |
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| (Indicative) Irregular Verb Tense Chart I | |
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| (Indicative) Verb Tense Chart II | |
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| (Indicative) Irregular Verb Tense Chart II | |
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| Index | |